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1816Latest news from example.comTYPO3 - get.content.righthttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssThu, 27 Nov 2014 12:31:00 +0100Metaways: New member of the Open Source Business Alliancehttp://www.arcavias.com/en/news/news-archive/details/metaways-new-member-of-the-open-source-business-alliance.html
In August 2014, Metaways joined the Open Source Business Alliance (OSB Alliance).Metaways NewsArcavias NewsTine NewsThu, 28 Aug 2014 13:29:00 +0200New Arcavias release is faster than everhttp://www.arcavias.com/en/news/news-archive/details/new-arcavias-release-is-faster-than-ever.html
Metaways significantly expanded its open source shop system Arcavias again. Among the highlights of...http://www.arcavias.com/download.html.
The new release 1.2.0 of the Arcavias TYPO3 extension is available now and is available from the TYPO3 extension repository for free download.
]]>Metaways NewsArcavias NewsThu, 31 Jul 2014 13:39:00 +0200Increasing Sales With Coupons in Arcavias Shophttp://www.arcavias.com/en/news/news-archive/details/increasing-sales-with-coupons-in-arcavias-shop.html
Hamburg, June 3rd 2014 - Metaways further developed the Open source shop system Arcavias. One of...Order process simplified
One of the numerous enhancements is the simplified order process. For logged in shop user the customer's address as well as the last used payment and delivery methods are automatically added to the shopping cart, for new user the payment and delivery methods defined by the shop owner are used. Within the administration interface multidimensional values can be used now in all configuration options, e.g. a minimum order value for each currency.
The new version of Arcavias is now available and can be downloaded here: http://www.arcavias.com/download.html
The new release 1.1 of the Arcavias TYPO3 extension is also available now and can be downloaded from the TYPO3 Extension Repository or under http://www.arcavias.com/download.html
More information and commercial services regarding our Open Source shop system can be found at http://www.arcavias.com.]]>Metaways NewsArcavias NewsTue, 03 Jun 2014 14:33:00 +0200Arcavias Core 2014.05 releasedhttp://www.arcavias.com/en/news/news-archive/details/arcavias-core-201405-released.html
Metaways has released the new versions of the Arcavias core and
demo! They are a big step forward...http://www.arcavias.com/download.html]]>Arcavias NewsMetaways NewsWed, 07 May 2014 14:48:00 +0200Arcavias for TYPO3: Metaways released version 1.0 for TYPO3 6.2 LTShttp://www.arcavias.com/en/news/news-archive/details/arcavias-for-typo3-metaways-released-version-10-for-typo3-62-lts.html
The first stable release of Arcavias‘ TYPO3 version is available. Metaways, the solution‘s main...Recently, Metaways presented the first stable release of Arcavias Core, now the Hamburg full-service IT provider also offers the TYPO3 version of the popular open source shop system. The first stable version 1.0 of TYPO3 Arcavias is now available for download.

On the basis of the stable Arcavias core, the solution can provide a full compatibility with the new TYPO3 version 6.2, which was released last week. Like TYPO3 6.2 LTS, the Arcavias TYPO3 extension also includes support with improvements, bug fixes and security updates for three years.

To help users to get started and to facilitate the initial testing, demo data is now generated automatically during installation of the Arcavias TYPO3 extension. This data can be fully removed at any time, without losing any added products.

For shop visitors the usability of the software has once again improved. The layout of the components fits better into existing TYPO3 installations and the presentation was optimized and unified in many aspects.

Store administrators benefit from improvements in the administration interface. Different product-, attribute-, price-, service- and plug-in-types can be managed comfortably now.

"After Arcavias Core also the first stable version of Arcavias TYPO3 is available now. Thereby, we were able to succesfully complete a major milestone in the history of our open source shop system", says Norbert Sendetzky, Product Manager Arcavias at Metaways. "TYPO3 users can benefit from many improvements and a full compatibility with the latest TYPO3 version."

The new release Arcavias TYPO3 1.0 is now available and can be downloaded for free at http://www.arcavias.com/download.html.

More information and commercial services regarding the open source shop system are available at http://www.arcavias.com.

]]>Arcavias NewsMetaways NewsThu, 03 Apr 2014 14:07:00 +0200Arcavis core and demo 2014.03.1 releasedhttp://www.arcavias.com/en/news/news-archive/details/arcavis-core-and-demo-2014031-released.html
The minor update now fully supports Facebook's Hiphop PHP VM.
The minor update now fully supports Facebook's Hiphop PHP VM. Additionally, it makes installation much simpler by providing an install shell script and packages the required dependencies for development.
Furthermore, it fixes some bugs like the product counts in the catalog filter. If the combination of attributes was too high, not all available products were counted. Also, the basket only displays product images now and the price details are unified in all lists.The new release is available at http://www.arcavias.com/en/download.html]]>Arcavias NewsTue, 18 Mar 2014 23:31:00 +0100First Stable Release of Arcavias Availablehttp://www.arcavias.com/en/news/news-archive/details/first-stable-release-of-arcavias-available.html
Metaways presents the first stable release of the open source shop system Arcavias. Based on a...Metaways presents the first stable release of the popular open source shop system Arcavias. Based on a large "Crowd Testing" the usability was considerably increased.

The full service IT provider Metaways based in Hamburg has released the new Arcavias core release 2014.03. This is the first stable release of the open source e-commerce framework. The new version will be actively maintained for one year, also the IT provider will support release 2014.03 after this period.

For the new version the quality of the shop platform was further increased. Based on an extensive "Crowd Testing" on rapidusertests.com the developer were able to considerably improve the usability. All functions were implemented using only the best open source components, so that they are flexible to adjust for any project.

Some of the usability improvements embrace a zoom for images and the possibility to evaluate the dependency of different product versions. Also products can be added to the cart from the product page and details of a submitted transmission can be shown without reload. Further new functions include the display of price scales for products, the possibility to add downloads and to show images in the faceted search.

Apart from the user experience in the new version, also the shop owner benefits from more possibilities regarding the configuration. For instance, it is now possible in Arcavias shops to order products which are momentarily out of stock. Furthermore, the developers were able to decrease the system requirements, so that an Arcavias shop can run in a shared hosting environment now. Last but not least, Metaways enlarged the capability. The performance of the full-text search and the faceted search with large amounts of data was augmented. The built of the index of products, which are assigned to several categories, was also boosted.

"With version 2014.03 we have now the first stable version of Arcavias. We are very happy about this milestone in the history of our open source shop system", says Norbert Sendetzky, Product Manager Arcavias at Metaways. "Countless test user helped to considerably increase the usability of the software. So now Arcavias is at a level with other shop systems."

The new release 2014.03 of Arcavias is now available and can be downloaded for free at http://www.arcavias.com/download.html.

More information and commercial services for the open source shop system can be found at http://www.arcavias.com/

Both, the front-end and administration interface are now fully translatable and are available in English, German, French and Spanish. In the TYPO3 back-end, the language of the administration interface is chosen on the settings of the user automatically. Other innovations are the unit tests for controllers, the scheduler task, flexforms and custom classes providing a high code coverage. The extension and especially the scheduler task now also works for all versions from TYPO3 4.x to 6.x.

The usability of Arcavias based shops was improved by a full featured faceted search that allows filtering for both, attributes and categories. Customers are also informed about changes of the delivery status of their order via e-mail. Editors will like the improvements in the administration interface, too. The entries in every list can be copied including all referenced items. It's very easy to create new ones based on existing items now.

There are also some major performance improvements in this release. By using AJAX for retrieving the product counts for the attributes and categories, the list view isn't slowed down any more by counting several 10,000 products. Also, the speed of the text export in the administration interface was severly improved.

We upgrade the ExtJS library used by the administration interface to get a better support for Internet Explorer 9 and 10. Extension developers will also favor the possibility to dynamically extend the functionality of the HTML clients by using decorators - just like it was already possible for managers and controllers. List, type and address managers are now separate classes so extending them is as easy as it should be.

The new Arcavias TYPO3 release 0.10.0 is available for free at http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/arcavias or http://www.arcavias.com/download.html

You can also explore the updated demo shop at http://www.arcavias.com/en/project/demo-access.html

]]>Metaways NewsArcavias NewsTue, 04 Feb 2014 10:24:00 +0100High-security encryption for e-commerce: Metaways introduces new Arcavias Release: Metaways stellt neues Arcavias-Release vorhttp://www.arcavias.com/en/news/news-archive/details/high-security-encryption-for-e-commerce-metaways-introduces-new-arcavias-release-metaways-stellt-n.html
Metaways has introduced a new core release of Arcavias. The open-source e-commerce framework offers...Further improvements of the new release of Arcavias concerning the infrastructure of the solution: Order e-mails can be automatically sent to customers, e.g. when the payment status has changed or the delivery process has started. The connection to PayPal was completed, so that subsequent amendments to the payment status will be registered by the shop. Updating the catalog index takes less than an hour - even with more than 100.000 products in the database. Developers can now create the basic structure for a new extension through the „phing“ command, so they can focus on their new code.

The improvements in the front end provide an easier operation for the visitors. They include, among others, the implementation of a session-related dynamic range for user content, such as the recently viewed items. Furthermore, product placement for popular and recommended products have been added. Plus, HTML can now be used in product names.

The administration interface has been improved, too, so that administrators can work more efficiently with Arcavias. The language selection for the administration interface can be restricted and invalid UTF-8 characters in text content are removed automatically, so that text can be copied from Microsoft Word without any problems now. By using a status flag, all associations like texts and images to products can be disabled now without deleting.

"Encryption is an essential need in e-commerce these days," said Norbert Sendetzky, Product Manager Arcavias at Metaways. "By using public and private keys based on the free cryptography system GnuPG we can provide highest security without compromise - even against savvy attackers."

The new Arcavias core release is available now and can be downloaded from http://www.arcavias.com/download.html.

For more information and commercial services to the open source shop system are under http://www.arcavias.com.]]>Metaways NewsArcavias NewsArcavias LandingpageMon, 13 Jan 2014 11:41:00 +0100Arcavias TYPO3 searches now for detailshttp://www.arcavias.com/en/news/news-archive/details/arcavias-typo3-searches-now-for-details.html
Metaways extended the Open Source shop system Arcavias for TYPO3 and increased the usability.The last beta version of the Open Source e-commerce framework Arcavias for TYPO3 is as of now available in the TYPO3 Extension Repository. The full service IT provider Metaways located in Hamburg equipped the software in release 0.9 among other improvements with a faceted search. Customers of Arcavias shops can use it to filter products according to attributes like colours and sizes and thus get faster what they want.

Other improvements increase the usability of the software. The Arcavias TYPO3 Extension offers customers, who visit an Arcavias shop with Internet Explorer 11, the possibility to navigate through the product lists like in a book with "flip ahead browsing". Furthermore the PayPal Express configuration is now more convenient for shop owners due to multiple default settings.

Editors' work becomes easier with the new release, too. The system displays a message automatically, if a time out occurs in a list view of the administration interface. Besides this a configuration infrastructure is now available in the Arcavias TYPO3 Extension which allows the administration interface to be customized to wishes of the editors.

As another improvement, the e-commerce framework now supports the latest versions of the TYPO3 extensions required by Arcavias. In addition new flexform settings enable the shop system to send the URL for automatic payment status updates to payment partners without any need of further configuration.

The new release 0.9 of Arcavias TYPO3 is as of now available free of charge and can be either retrieved from the TYPO3 Extension Repository or downloaded from http://www.arcavias.com/download.html.

For more information and commercial services for the Open Source shop system you are welcome to visit http://www.arcavias.com.]]>Metaways NewsArcavias NewsArcavias LandingpageMon, 02 Dec 2013 13:45:00 +0100